Pachypora

Pachypora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 11 of 18 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 18 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 2 occurrences405–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–375 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–263 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430.6 Mya259.857 Mya436 Mya251 Mya

18 occurrences of Pachypora on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

18 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Motol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EHeitai — 45.55°N, 131.95°EUpper Visby — 57.83°N, 18.58°EBadokalay — 34.53°N, 69.28°EDzhinsetu — 44.38°N, 99.45°EShargynul — 46.67°N, 113.27°ETsogt — 45.33°N, 96.63°ECallytharra — 24.65°S, 115.32°E

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The named rock units Pachypora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachypora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pachypora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pachypora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 18 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pachypora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPachyporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1873